[WZcpa15]

Hi all,

My state board of accountancy just told me that I needed additional 3 and 1/3 semester units of accounting for my CPA license. I have to finish the class by December 2016 so my transcript can be sent to the California board of accountancy or I will have to follow the 2017s educational requirement which also included another 3 semester units of ethics.

Does anybody know a college or school that offers accounting classes immediately and is self paced? The cost doesn’t matter to me much as long as it can start immediately.

Thank you

All Exam Done - FAR 86, BEC 82, REG 86, AUD 78
CA Ethics Passed - July 16

BEC - Passed - 7/27/15 - 25%
FAR - Passed - 10/1/15 - 50%
REG - Passed - 4/19/16 - 75%
AUD - Schedule - 5/24/16

Material Using - 2015 Wiley CPAexcel Study Guides and Focus Notes

[Anonymous]

Self-paced often still has a minimum time. 😐 Louisiana State University's online and distance learning is the most flexible program that I'm personally familiar with, but they still have an 8-week minimum for their courses, which would put you middle of December for completion, and with college Christmas breaks, getting a transcript in to CBA by 12/31 wouldn't be likely.

What about a non-self-paced course that's just now starting for Fall II? For example, the college I work at has Fall I and Fall II. Fall II just started this Monday, and add/drop goes through today. The college I'm taking courses through (LSU-S, slightly different than LSU mentioned above) has their Fall II semester start this coming Monday and the deadline to drop Fall II courses is Nov 1, so assuming that's an add and drop both deadline, there's still quite a few days to get into a course there. The classes get done the first full week of December (Dec 9th is the final for my course I'm taking), so would be done with 3 weeks to get transcripts out, and because they follow a structured course schedule, there's structured deadlines for professors to submit grades. Now granted, I think the school that I'm doing my MBA at requires you to be a degree-seeking student, and the school I work at doesn't offer many if any accounting courses online (can you tell I don't work in academics?), but a school on a similar schedule might be able to help you out. If you could find a school with 7-week online courses starting in the next few days, they'd get done Dec 9, and probably be required to submit grades by 12/14 or so, which would mean the registrar could (technically, maybe with some overnighting fees or something) send out your transcript before you get into the week or so around Christmas.

The shortage of 3 1/3 credits is particularly annoying, to have to take a whole extra course for 1/3 of a credit (assuming that all you find is 3 credit courses). 😐 Good luck! If you find anything specifically adaptable, be sure to post it here for future readers, and maybe someone else will know of a specific 6 or 7 week course to recommend.

[Anonymous]

Posting a 2nd post in case my link gets held up in quarantine…found this listing which includes some universities with 5 week semesters – those would be a killer while you're in them, but might enable you to get your courses done further ahead of the deadline, presuming they're accredited etc. etc. – clicked on one (the first one – Regent) and looked at their academic calendar and its next 5-week semester starts 10/31 and ends 12/4, so would give you time to get paperwork done to sign up but also give you nearly a month to get transcripts, if it offers accounting courses:
https://www.degreequery.com/the-30-fastest-online-degree-programs/

[sangtvo]

You should look into Foothill or De Anza college. They offer online & on-site accounting courses in which they qualify for the CA educational requirements. I got all my needed units there–I even took their professional accounting ethics just in case as well, which was pretty easy.

https://www.fhda.edu/

[WZcpa15]

I checked out the foothill college The fall quarter registration was over, no more adds for fall. They are for winter 2017 which it is my backup plan if I cannot find any that offer classes.

All Exam Done - FAR 86, BEC 82, REG 86, AUD 78
CA Ethics Passed - July 16

BEC - Passed - 7/27/15 - 25%
FAR - Passed - 10/1/15 - 50%
REG - Passed - 4/19/16 - 75%
AUD - Schedule - 5/24/16

Material Using - 2015 Wiley CPAexcel Study Guides and Focus Notes

[ultrarunner]

WZcpa15, where do you live? Foothill College's late fall quarter will start in November in their Sunnyvale campus. Please check this: https://www.foothill.edu/sunnyvale/schedule.php

sangtvo, I took my online Ethics class at Foothill too. 🙂

CPA/ MST/ Roger CPA Review

FAR 72,67,79 (Roger+Wiley test bank)11/15
AUD 80 (Roger)10/15
BEC 80 (Roger)4/16
REG 63,78 (Roger+Ninja MCQs)5/16

[.]

I'm not sure if you can get the transcript before 2017 with Foothill. Last year I ordered my transcript on December 20th and asked that it be held until the grades were out for the Fall Quarter. They didn't send out the transcript till January 5th.

FAR- 88- 6/16- (Ninja Avg. 74%)
REG- 89- 7/16- (Ninja Avg. 77%)
AUD- 95- 8/16- (Ninja Avg. 81%)
BEC- 82- 9/16- (Ninja Avg. 75%)
[Wiley CPAExcel + Ninja MCQ]

Finally licensed.

FAR - June 2016 - 88
REG - July 2016 - 89
AUD - Aug 2016 - review phase currently
BEC - Sep 2016 -

Wiley CPA Excel & Ninja MCQ

[WZcpa15]

I am in Oakland, but i hate to travel to Sunnyvale for a class twice a week. I prepare to do it online. Do you guys know if you need a letter grade for the courses or a pass/no pass is enough?

All Exam Done - FAR 86, BEC 82, REG 86, AUD 78
CA Ethics Passed - July 16

BEC - Passed - 7/27/15 - 25%
FAR - Passed - 10/1/15 - 50%
REG - Passed - 4/19/16 - 75%
AUD - Schedule - 5/24/16

Material Using - 2015 Wiley CPAexcel Study Guides and Focus Notes

[Anonymous]

Do they have to be accounting credits? If not, maybe CLEP will work.

Does the transcript have to arrive at the board before the end of the year or do you only need to finish the class in 2016?

[WZcpa15]

I don't think CLEP will work. Must be from a course from university or college that qualifies.

All Exam Done - FAR 86, BEC 82, REG 86, AUD 78
CA Ethics Passed - July 16

BEC - Passed - 7/27/15 - 25%
FAR - Passed - 10/1/15 - 50%
REG - Passed - 4/19/16 - 75%
AUD - Schedule - 5/24/16

Material Using - 2015 Wiley CPAexcel Study Guides and Focus Notes

[ultrarunner]

circadian malfunction, does it take that long? Anyway, I took Ethics in Accounting. Just in case the board won't get my transcript from the school before 12/31, I think it is okay. I would use my Ethics class to fulfill ethics study requirement anyway. The only difference between 2014-2016 and 2017 is accounting ethics. Is there anything else I miss?

CPA/ MST/ Roger CPA Review

FAR 72,67,79 (Roger+Wiley test bank)11/15
AUD 80 (Roger)10/15
BEC 80 (Roger)4/16
REG 63,78 (Roger+Ninja MCQs)5/16

[Anonymous]

UNA PAPP is the easier self-paced class to get into. Supposedly registration closed yesterday, but I wonder if they'd make an exception for you.

[.]

@ultrarunner

Maybe it took that long because of Christmas and New Year's. I got my grade several days before the 20th. I don't recall the exact date. I don't know too much about California's requirements. I'm from CA but I don't live there anymore.

FAR- 88- 6/16- (Ninja Avg. 74%)
REG- 89- 7/16- (Ninja Avg. 77%)
AUD- 95- 8/16- (Ninja Avg. 81%)
BEC- 82- 9/16- (Ninja Avg. 75%)
[Wiley CPAExcel + Ninja MCQ]

Finally licensed.

FAR - June 2016 - 88
REG - July 2016 - 89
AUD - Aug 2016 - review phase currently
BEC - Sep 2016 -

Wiley CPA Excel & Ninja MCQ

[CPA788]

Also be sure to REALLY scrub your transcript and class list and make sure you can't swap a class you labeled as business and use it for accounting. I have quite an over flow of business classes that can be fudged for accounting. Look at the course description and see if there isn't some verbiage in there that you can highlight and send to the board and say see look this class had some accounting in it!

BEC - 74, 77 (Becker only)

FAR - 72, 71, 78 (Becker+NINJA)

REG - 69, 59, 69, 72, 76 (Becker+a private tutor+NINJA+Gleim free trial+seriously anything else I could review)

AUD - 77 (Becker only)

CA candidate

BEC - 74, 77
FAR - 72, 71 (retake 7/29)
REG - 69
AUD - Q4 '16

CA Candidate

[WZcpa15]

It looks like they won't change any of evaluation and I couldn't find a school that accept student this late on the registration. I will have to finish it in Foothill college in Winter 17. I will be taking intro to accounting for 5 units and accounting ethics for 5 units. Looks like that will settle all the requirements for 2017. I am just disappointment at the California Board of Accountancy about the whole issue. I submitted my application in early August and didn't get anything for 2 months and they just dropped the bomb on me like that. If they would have told me that a month earlier, I could have find most colleges and add into their Fall quarter. I contacted CA board every other weeks for status and all they told me was it was being reviewed and there's a back log on everything and the usual 4-6 weeks became 8-10 weeks. What a bunch of BS. In the end, it is just lazy government workers and I have to pay the price.

All Exam Done - FAR 86, BEC 82, REG 86, AUD 78
CA Ethics Passed - July 16

BEC - Passed - 7/27/15 - 25%
FAR - Passed - 10/1/15 - 50%
REG - Passed - 4/19/16 - 75%
AUD - Schedule - 5/24/16

Material Using - 2015 Wiley CPAexcel Study Guides and Focus Notes

[Anonymous]

Are you sure intro to accounting will count towards your educational requirement? In my state it doesn't.

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